Episode 6 Stats

Each week Inside Survivor contributor Rob Brodeur will be collecting various Survivor-related statistics and information based on the latest episode of Survivor 45.

Mergatory/Merge

• Every new era merged tribe has been a different color.
  • Survivor 41: Red
  • Survivor 42: Purple
  • Survivor 43: Green
  • Survivor 44: Black
  • Survivor 45: Orange
• This is the 21st orange tribe in Survivor and the fourth orange-merged tribe.
• This is the first orange-merged tribe since Orkun in Cambodia.

Tribes

• Emily is the ninth player to be on a tribe or attend a tribal council with every castaway on their season. The others are as follows:
  • Rob, Sean, & Vecepia in Marquesas.
  • Denise in Philippines.
  • Spencer & Wiglesworth in Cambodia.
  • Aubry & Michaela in Game Changers.
• Reba is the third starting tribe to make it past the pre-merge portion of the game without having any players voted out.
  • Tandang in Philippines was the first and Luvu in Survivor 41 was the second.
  • All 3 tribes to do this ended up losing a female player at the first tribal council.
    • RC was voted out at the merge tribal council in Philippines.
    • Sydney was voted out at the mergatory tribal council in Survivor 41.
    • J. Maya was voted out at the mergatory tribal council in Survivor 45.
• Lulu is the third tribe to have only two members make it to the merge after Ua in Survivor 41 and Matsing in Philippines.
  • Coincidentally, all three seasons had a tribe (Tandang, Luvu, and Reba) that made it past the pre-merge part of the game with all members intact.

Hidden Immunity Idols/Advantage

• Bruce found the re-hidden Lulu idol.
• Belo is the third pre-merge tribe to not have anyone find the tribe’s idol.
  • The first was Galang in Blood vs. Water and the second was Angkor in Cambodia.
    • Belo is the first tribe to do this but not be a yellow tribe.
• Kaleb played his Shot in the Dark.
  • He’s the second person after Jaime in Survivor 44 to be safe after playing it.
    • He’s the first person to play it and have votes cast against him that otherwise would have sent him home.

Immunity Challenge: “Super Ramp”

• Survivor 42 is the only time a blue team competed in the “earn the merge” challenge and lost.
  • The blue team won in Survivor 41, Survivor 43, and Survivor 45
• Survivor 44 is the only time that there wasn’t a blue team competing in the “earn the merge” challenge.

Tribal Council

• J. Maya was voted out in a 10-1 revote after all original votes were nullified by Kaleb’s Shot in the Dark.
  • She’s the first player in Survivor history to be voted out 10-1.
• With Emily receiving a vote this episode, everyone from the original Lulu tribe (except Hannah, who quit) received at least 1 vote so far.
• This was Bruce, Jake, Katurah, and Kellie’s first time at tribal.
  • This was Bruce’s first time voting in both seasons he played in.
• Bruce, Jake, Kellie, and Katurah made it to the merge without going to a pre-merge tribal council. They join the following:
  • The Tandang tribe – Philippines
  • Keith & Joe – Cambodia
  • Michele & Nick – Kaoh Rong
  • Cirie Fields – Game Changers
  • Chris Noble – Ghost Island
  • The Luvu Tribe – Survivor 41
• Every tribal council had at least one Lulu member vulnerable.
  • Episodes 1-3: Lulu lost the immunity challenge.
  • Episode 4: Sean lost on Reba.
  • Episode 5: Emily lost while on Belo.
  • Episode 6: Emily and Kaleb lost the Mergatory challenge.
• All votes were nullified from the Shot in the Dark
  • Kaleb now holds the record for most votes nullified at a tribal council with 11. (Previously held by Kelley Wentworth, who nullified 9)
    • Wentworth and Christian are tied with 12 votes nullified in a season.
    • Wentworth still holds the record for most votes nullified at a tribal council with a hidden immunity idol.
• This was the third time that there was a null vote at tribal council.
  • The Kimmi vote-out in Cambodia.
  • The Cirie vote-out in Game Changers.
    • This is the first time that a null vote happened in a non-finale episode.
• In the post-swap section of the game, one member of each original tribe was voted out.
  • Episode 4: Sean from Lulu
  • Episode 5: Brando from Belo
  • Episode 6: J. Maya from Reba
• With the exception of Lex in All-Stars, on every season that started with three tribes, the player voted out at the first merged tribal council was on a starting tribe with the most players (or tied for the most players) left in the game. (In All-Stars, Lex was from Mogo Mogo, who had 3 members left, while Chapera had 4 and Saboga had 2.)
  • RC in Philippines: Tandang had 6 original members left while Kalabaw had 3 and Matsing had 2.
  • Sarah in Cagayan: Aparri & Solana had 4 players left, while Luzon had 3.
  • Kelly in Worlds Apart: Escameca had 5 original members left while Nagarote had 4 and Masaya had 3.
  • Nick in Kaoh Rong: Gondol had 4 original members left, while Chan Loh and To Tang had 3.
  • Jessica in Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers: Soko had 5 original members left, while Levu had 4 and Yawa had 3.
  • Sydney in Survivor 41: Luvu had 6 original members left, while Yase had 4 and Ua had 2.
  • Lydia in Survivor 42: All 3 tribes entered the merge portion with 4 players left. 4-4-4
  • Elie in Survivor 43: Baka had 5 original members left, while Vesi & Coco had 4.
  • Josh in Survivor 44: Soka had 5 original members left, while Ratu had 4 and Tika had 3.
  • J Maya in Survivor 45: Reba had 6 original members left, while Belo had 5 and Lulu had 2.

Confessionals

• Bruce had the most confessionals in this episode with 10.
  • He had more confessionals in this episode than he did in the first 5 episodes of the season.
• Katurah and Sifu had the lowest number of confessionals in this episode with 1.
• Kaleb has the most confessionals so far with 37.
• Sifu has the lowest number of confessionals so far with 10.

Ratings

• The sixth episode received 4.856 million viewers and 0.72 in the Adults 18-49 demo.

Episode Title

• The episode title “I’m Not Batman, I’m the Canadian” was said by Kaleb when talking about the need to have allies and not be alone in the game.
  • Episode 5 is the only episode so far this season where the title was said by a non-Lulu member.

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